by RAY LEWIS
A Democratic senator accused the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of “stonewalling” requests for information about the first attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told reporters Monday from a Senate office building that DHS has not provided documents, witnesses nor other evidence relating to the July assassination attempt.
“I am reaching the point of total outrage, because the response from the Department of Homeland Security has been totally lacking. In fact, I think it’s tantamount to stonewalling in many respects,” Sen. Blumenthal said.
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has been investigating any security failures that led to the assassination attempt. Sen. Blumenthal sits on that committee.
“The Department of Homeland Security has to be more forthcoming, not only to me, but to the American people, and it has to do it quickly or it will fuel the conspiracy theories that are so dangerous to our democracy, as well as undermining its own credibility,” he said.
One of those conspiracy theories is that government actors orchestrated the shooting. Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., said in a radio interview that he didn’t “put it past some of the people in our government to do anything necessary to hold on to power,” according to The New York Times.
Sen. Blumenthal said that he has expressed his frustration to DHS, adding that he would support a subpoena to obtain evidence of what actually happened.
“I’ll certainly support a subpoena. It takes very little drafting to do a subpoena here and even less time,” he noted. “I know how to do subpoenas. I’m ready, willing and able to use the subpoena process if necessary to get information from the Department of Homeland Security.”
That spot the sniper used is the same spot paparazzi use when they want to snap pics of Trump golfing.
It was not unknown either to media or to the SS.
Don’t read toomuch into this. Blumenthal is all about Blumenthal. He’s looking to get something out of this for his own gain
If there continues to be a lot of information about the lack of security of government employees or elected officials and even media people there are likely to be many kooks coming out of the woodwork doing stupid things! Continuing to vocalize vulnerabilities of the security is just an invitation to these kooks.
My God, what does he expect? This is the most corrupt regime in US history, even more corrupt than the Obama regime. Mayorkas is totally corrupt and useless and should have been fired.
Probably, they suspect some rogue assets behind the assassination attempt and fear exposure.